Lysistrata

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, army disbander)

Proper noun

Lysistrata

  1. A comedy by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying men sex.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Lysistrata (plural Lysistratas)

  1. A woman who withholds sex in order to get her way.
    • Stan Steiner, quoted in: 1993, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons and Crones: The Fates of the Earth (page 225)
      Lysistratas among the Indian [Iroquois] women proclaimed a boycott on lovemaking and childbearing.
    • 2020, Helen Morales, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths:
      Despite all this, the Western media framed these women as modern-day Lysistratas.

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λυσιστράτη (Lusistrátē, army disbander).

Proper noun

Lysistrata f

  1. Lysistrata (Ancient Greek comedy)

Declension

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